Comet

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A Comet in GTA Vice City.

The Comet is a sports car that appears in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, and all games of GTA IV Era.

Description

Design and frequency of appearance

Based on the Porsche 911, the Comet is all-wheel-drive like many of the newer models, yet looks most like a 911 Cabriolet from 1976 or the early 1980s, while featuring a targa top similar to the Targa 911s between GTA Vice City and GTA Vice City Stories. Its fastback profile, which debuted in GTA Vice City, was dropped in games after until GTA IV, and was not even featured the Comet in the Xbox version of GTA Vice City. Older renditions of the Comet are front-engined, unlike the real Porsche 911, which is famously rear-engined. This brought up speculation that the Comet was in fact a Datsun 240Z, specifically because of the inset headlamps which Porsches never had.

GTA IV's Comet, which bears the logo of its manufacturer, Pfister, is available only in hardtop coupe form. It retains its Porsche-like silhouette, this time resembling a modernized Porsche 911 Turbo, but still retaining the scooped out headlights of previous Comets. The GTA IV rendition also remains faithful to its basis on a Porsche 911 by featuring a rear-engine design. In contrast to its predecessors, GTA IV's Comet is very rarely encountered on the streets, and is more common in Party Mode where two parked Comets can be seen and driven.

Performance

Acceleration, speed, braking, and handling are all among the best in the game. In games prior to GTA IV, the Comet has the added advantage of being similar to a top-down convertible, which enables the player to jump into the driver's seat from the left side of the vehicle without opening the door, facilitating a more rapid take-off. In GTA Vice City and GTA Vice City Stories, many of the Comet's properties are similar to that of the Stinger, except with inferior traction. Both vehicles have open tops, and the speed and acceleration are around the same.

The GTA IV rendition of the Comet is the fastest car in the game, reaching a top speed of 347 km/h (216 mph) (closely followed by the Infernus, which reaches 342 km/h (208 mph). With a powerful rear mounted, twin-turbocharged flat-6, and all-wheel drive (the 911 Turbo is all-wheel drive since the 993 iteration), fast cornering results in massive understeer, and has the potential for lift-off oversteer. Acceleration from a standstill is superior, due to the immaculate traction the car has.

The Comet is slightly faster than the Infernus, but is not necessarily superior in multiplayer racing -- the Comet is very light-weight, leading to the car being rammed offroad by the other vehicles, or being launched into the air off of hills and losing control. AI races present much less of a challenge -- the player can easily outpace the competition very early on, thanks to the Comet's speed; once this is accomplished, the Comet's vulnerability to the other cars is rendered moot, and the player will have the luxury of slowing down to prevent being launched off of hills.

Locations

GTA Vice City

• In front of Leaf Links Country Club.

GTA San Andreas

• Parked in the parking lot nearby the tennis court at the Avispa Country Club, San Fierro (only when wanted for Exports and Imports).
• Available for import from Easter Basin docks, San Fierro after second list completion, for $28,000 on Wednesday

GTA Vice City Stories

• Parked under a building near Forbes's apartment.
• Parked along the road that extends from Malibu Club to North Point Mall.
• Inside an alleyway north of Lance's apartment.
• Parked near an apartment before you pass the bridge leading to Prawn Island from Vice Point.

GTA IV

• Obtained in the mission "No. 1" (given by Brucie Kibbutz), where the player must race others using a Comet from Brucie's friend, Stevie. After winning the race (and the mission), Brucie will allow the player to keep the Comet as a gratuity. This Comet has a unique, rich yellow color, which is much brighter than a normal yellow Comet.
• In Brucie's optional street races, sometimes an opponent or opponents will spawn in Comets, which can be stolen (although this will forfeit the race).
• Spawned at the beginning of Bernie Crane's mission, "Hating the Haters". The player may park this Comet at a safehouse for safekeeping, and continue the mission in another car.
• The Comet is one of the target cars to be stolen for Stevie in his series of side missions. Once you have found the target Comet, you can drive it to a safehouse and store it; another will respawn in the place you found it, and this Comet can be delivered to Stevie. This Comet comes in a unique mauve color.
• The Comet will be always seen during the mission "Payback". While the player is chasing the Pavanos, a Comet is seen getting into a car accident; the player can stop to take this car, although doing so is likely to lead to mission failure.
• The Comet can be spawned by dialing (227)-555-0175 on the cell phone. This cheat code will not affect your saved game.

GTA IV: The Lost and Damned

• Although it has no spawning point, the Comet is driven in the Gang Wars.

Modifications (GTA San Andreas)

• Color
• Wheels (ten types)
• Nitro (all)
• Hydraulics

Trivia

• In some of the games in the series, Comets' radios default to a certain station. They are as follows:
  • GTA San Andreas - CSR 103.9
  • GTA IV - Electro-Choc or Radio Broker

Gallery

• GTA Vice City rendition; rear quarter view.

  GTA Vice City rendition; rear quarter view.

• The Comet, as seen in GTA San Andreas.

  The Comet, as seen in GTA San Andreas.

• GTA San Andreas rendition; rear quarter view.

  GTA San Andreas rendition; rear quarter view.

• GTA Vice City Stories rendition.

  GTA Vice City Stories rendition.

• The Comet, as seen in GTA IV.

  The Comet, as seen in GTA IV.

• GTA IV rendition; rear quarter view.

  GTA IV rendition; rear quarter view.

• The Comet in GTA Chinatown Wars.

  The Comet in GTA Chinatown Wars.